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8 Best Asian Restaurants in San Francisco

The 8 best asian restaurants in San Francisco, sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals editors.

The best asian restaurants in San Francisco are Liholiho Yacht Club, Hook Fish Co, Devil's Teeth Baking Company, and more. Start with Liholiho Yacht Club if you want the strongest overall first pick.

By Marcus Chen•8 ranked picks•Published July 15, 2026•Updated July 15, 2026
Methodology•Editorial team
Liholiho Yacht ClubHook Fish CoDevil's Teeth Baking Company
8 Best Asian Restaurants in San Francisco
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Top picks at a glance

#1Liholiho Yacht ClubAsian • San Francisco • $$$#2Hook Fish CoAsian • Sunset District • value#3Devil's Teeth Baking CompanyAsian • Sunset District • value

Who this guide is for

This guide covers the highest-rated asian restaurants in San Francisco. The picks are sorted by Google rating and review volume to give you a reliable shortlist. Picks span San Francisco, Sunset District and Richmond District.

Quick picks

Liholiho Yacht Club
Asian • San Francisco
Liholiho Yacht Club is Ravi Kapur's long-running love letter to his Hawaiian upbringing, translated through the kind of California-meets-Pacific-Rim sensibility that San Francisco does better than…
Hook Fish Co
Asian • Sunset District
Hook Fish Co is a asian restaurant in Sunset District in San Francisco that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
Devil's Teeth Baking Company
Asian • Sunset District
Hilary Passman's path to running one of the Outer Sunset's most talked-about bakeries went through a law career she eventually abandoned to sell wedding cakes on Craigslist — which tells you someth…
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Editorial details
Author: Marcus Chen
Published: July 15, 2026
Last updated: July 15, 2026

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  1. 1. Liholiho Yacht ClubView →
  2. 2. Hook Fish CoView →
  3. 3. Devil's Teeth Baking CompanyView →
  4. 4. LokmaView →
  5. 5. Bella TrattoriaView →
  6. 6. Dragon BeauxView →
  7. 7. Pacific CatchView →
  8. 8. Lao TableView →

How the restaurants compare

Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Liholiho Yacht Club
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Liholiho Yacht Club
San Francisco • Asian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
$$$
Best for
cocktail
Mood
Upscale
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Hook Fish Co
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Hook Fish Co
Sunset District • Asian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
dinner
Mood
Sunset District
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Devil's Teeth Baking Company
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Devil's Teeth Baking Company
Sunset District • Asian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
dinner
Mood
Sunset District
Editorial restaurant image stand-in for Lokma
Google
Lokma
Richmond District • Asian
9.9/10
TastyPals Score
Price
value
Best for
dinner
Mood
Richmond District

How we chose

We looked for restaurants that feel like a strong fit for the guide topic, not just the most obvious names in the city. The shortlist favors rooms with clear mood, dependable pacing, and enough distinction to help someone decide faster. Read our full methodology →

Room tone

Lighting, pace, and general energy all need to support the reason someone clicked this guide.

Food fit

We favored restaurants that feel best suited for the moment, not just restaurants with broad reputation.

Useful range

The final list tries to give readers enough variation in neighborhood, price, and style to compare real options.

8 ranked picks

Liholiho Yacht Club — Liholiho Yacht Club is Ravi Kapur's long-running love letter to his Hawaiian upbringing, translated through the kind of California-meets-Pacific-Rim sensibility that San Francisco does better than almost anywhere. The room has a reputation for running loud and warm — less white-tablecloth restraint, more dinner-party momentum — and the cooking reportedly draws from Hawaiian, Indian, Chinese, and Californian traditions simultaneously, held together by Kapur's clear point of view. That combination has kept the place relevant and genuinely crowded since it opened, which, in this city's restaurant landscape, is its own form of argument. The menu is built for sharing, and the dishes that have defined the kitchen's reputation are telling. The tuna poke nori cones are among the most-cited starters in guest accounts — the format itself signaling the kitchen's instinct for food that's interactive and immediate. The beef tongue bao has been a signature from early on, appearing consistently in what diners and writers return to when they describe what the restaurant is actually about. The twice-cooked pork belly is the kind of preparation that rewards a kitchen with real technique, and it shows up repeatedly in credible coverage of the menu. And then there's the baked Hawaii — a riff on baked Alaska that gets outsized attention as a closer, the kind of dessert that becomes shorthand for the whole experience. Everything on the menu is reportedly calibrated for bold, layered flavors without collapsing into excess. This is a celebratory room that functions as well for a two-top as for a larger group, but it is popular and the space is tight. Reserve ahead — walk-ins are a gamble. Lead with the tuna poke nori cones and the beef tongue bao, share across the table, and end with the baked Hawaii. View restaurant →
Devil's Teeth Baking Company — Hilary Passman's path to running one of the Outer Sunset's most talked-about bakeries went through a law career she eventually abandoned to sell wedding cakes on Craigslist — which tells you something about the vibe she was going for. Devil's Teeth on Noriega Street has no interest in performing for you. The whole operation is built around feeding people well and getting out of the way, which is a genuinely difficult thing to pull off consistently. The Special Breakfast Sandwich — scrambled eggs, avocado, bacon, pepper jack, and a lemon-garlic aioli — is reportedly the engine that keeps this place running, with the kitchen said to crank out hundreds daily. That kind of volume is usually where quality goes to die, but by all accounts it hasn't here; the sandwich has developed a real following over the years, the kind where regulars plan their weekends around it. The Cinnamon Rolls are known for skipping the icing entirely, a restraint-forward move that apparently works in their favor. The Bacon Cheddar Beer Muffins have developed their own reputation as a savory alternative that diners consistently describe as punching well above the price point. On the sweeter end, Lemon Bars round out the menu without a lot of drama attached to them. The Outer Sunset is not a neighborhood you wander into by accident, which means the crowd at Devil's Teeth on any given morning is there with purpose. There's a parklet out front and a small patio in the back, dogs are welcome, and pricing stays firmly in the range where you don't have to think too hard before ordering seconds. Go early on weekends — the sandwich line is not theoretical. View restaurant →

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Bella Trattoria — Bella Trattoria has been holding down its corner of Clement Street since 1996, which in Richmond District terms is basically geological time. What most people don't clock walking in is that the address actually runs three distinct operations: a sixty-seat old-world dining room built for Southern Italian cooking on home-kitchen logic, a wine bar side that leans lighter and more casual, and a cocktail bar with a pool table and guest DJs that skews younger and louder. Knowing which room fits your night is half the battle — and at price-level-one across the board, the stakes for getting it wrong are low enough that you can experiment. The dining room menu centers on housemade pastas, and the carbonara and housemade gnocchi are the dishes diners consistently point to as the reason they keep coming back. Both represent the kind of institutional muscle that only accumulates over decades — the kitchen reportedly executes them without flourish, which is exactly the point. On Sundays, the format opens up into a three-course menu where a table-side cacio e pepe finished in a cheese wheel makes an appearance, along with lobster ravioli. It's a theatrical move that, by all accounts, earns its spectacle. The wine bar side runs a tighter, lower-commitment menu of panini and housemade gelato alongside Italian pantry products — the kind of setup that makes a Tuesday evening feel like a reasonable occasion. Practical notes: the cocktail bar energy is a feature, not a flaw, but it is genuinely louder, so factor that in when you're booking. If the cheese-wheel cacio e pepe is the reason you're coming on a Sunday, call ahead to confirm availability rather than arriving on optimism alone. And if you're only half-hungry, the wine and Italian products tasting on the wine bar side is the value proposition most people walk straight past. View restaurant →
Dragon Beaux — Dragon Beaux operates at a tension point that's pretty unusual for the Richmond District: it's a dim sum house that has zero interest in playing the neighborhood's traditional modesty game. The room skews noticeably upscale — booths, low lighting, tablecloths that don't crinkle — and the menu doesn't pretend that's an accident. This is the place Richmond families reportedly escalate to when the occasion demands something better than a paper placemat, and the fact that regulars are known to work through the full menu on random Tuesday afternoons says something real about the loyalty this place has built. The menu itself swings between classic dim sum territory and more ambitious weekend-dinner plays, and the dishes that have drawn the most consistent attention reflect that range. The Shrimp Dumplings with Chilean Sea Bass represent the kitchen's willingness to push past har gow convention, pairing a dim sum staple with a premium fish that most carts wouldn't touch. The BBQ Pork Puff Pastries are reportedly among the more requested items — char siu in laminated pastry is a format that rewards a kitchen that takes its prep seriously, and Dragon Beaux is described as doing exactly that. The Salt-and-Pepper Ribs appear regularly in the conversation around what to order here, a technique-dependent dish that diners consistently flag as a reason to return. Then there's the Kobe Beef Hot Pot, which is essentially Dragon Beaux making its ambitions explicit in a single menu item. It's the kind of flex that tells you where this restaurant sees itself. For practical purposes: weekend brunch draws crowds, so a reservation is the move. If you're going off-peak, the full menu is available, and based on what regulars order, that's when the hot pot tends to make the most sense. View restaurant →
Pacific Catch — Pacific Catch on 9th Avenue in the Sunset has built a quiet reputation as one of the more thoughtfully sourced seafood spots in the city — Pacific Rim cooking at price-point-one prices, with a dog-friendly Tiki Terrace that reportedly pulls off a genuinely low-key Hawaiian beach-bar vibe when San Francisco actually cooperates with the weather. That combination — sustainably sourced fish, real geographic range on the menu, and a backyard where your dog is welcome — has kept the Sunset crowd loyal without much fanfare reaching the rest of the city. The menu draws from across the Pacific, with sourcing from places like Patagonia and Kona giving the kitchen real material to work with. The Miso Black Cod is consistently cited as the anchor dish — the kind of preparation that tends to define a room's ambitions — and the Poke/Ceviche Trio is well-regarded for taking acid balance and fish quality seriously rather than treating it as a menu checkbox. The Cabo Calamari rounds out the lineup as a reliable casual order, and the kitchen is known for rotating offerings rather than settling into a static menu, which suggests they're paying attention to what's actually coming in fresh. Portions run generous across the board, which is part of why the price level stays as surprising as it does. Practical note: the Tiki Terrace is the move on a rare warm Sunset evening, and dogs are genuinely welcome out there — not tolerated, welcome. The Miso Black Cod and the Poke/Ceviche Trio are the dishes that come up most consistently in how regulars describe the place. If someone at your table has a sweet tooth, the Pineapple "Right Side Up" Cake is reportedly the dessert to settle the argument over. View restaurant →

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